Top Choice Fire Ant Treatment – 1-Year Guaranteed Yard Protection
Are fire ant mounds taking over your yard? Imported fire ants don’t just hurt when they sting – they also destroy lawns, damage equipment, and make it miserable to enjoy your outdoor space.
D & D Pest Control Co. offers a professional Top Choice Fire Ant Treatment that is designed to make your yard fire ant free and keep it that way for up to one full year. With one broadcast application, our program controls existing imported fire ant colonies and helps prevent new mounds from establishing in your lawn, backed by our 1-year fire ant guarantee.
Why Fire Ants Are Such a Problem in Eastern North Carolina
The Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta) is now firmly established across much of Eastern North Carolina. These ants:
- Build raised, dome-shaped mounds in sunny lawns, fields, parks, and road edges
- Respond aggressively when disturbed, delivering multiple burning stings
- Can threaten children, pets, and anyone sensitive to insect venom
- Disrupt lawn use, outdoor events, and landscaping work
- Damage electrical equipment and irrigation components
Because colonies can contain hundreds of thousands of workers and multiple queens, simply kicking over a mound or spraying the top with a quick-contact insecticide rarely solves the problem for long.
What Is “Top Choice” Fire Ant Treatment?
Our Top Choice Fire Ant Treatment uses a professional fipronil-based granular insecticide that is broadcast across the entire lawn and then watered in. Products in this class (such as TopChoice® Insecticide Granules) are designed specifically for turf and landscape beds and provide:
- Up to one year of imported fire ant control with a single broadcast application
- Slow-acting, long-lasting control as the active ingredient binds to soil and is picked up by foraging ants over time
- Colony-level impact – workers carry the insecticide back to the mound where it reaches queens and brood
- Use on home lawns, commercial turf, parks, school grounds, and similar turf areas listed on the product label
Because fipronil remains active in the soil profile much longer than standard contact insecticides, it keeps working against hidden and newly formed colonies far beyond the initial treatment date.
How Our 1-Year Fire Ant Program Works
1. Yard Inspection & Measurement
We begin by walking your property, locating visible mounds, assessing fire ant pressure, and measuring total turf square footage so we can calculate the precise application rate for your yard.
2. Professional Broadcast Application
Using a calibrated professional spreader, we apply the Top Choice granular product evenly over the entire lawn and other labeled turf areas. Treating the whole yard – not just visible mounds – is critical for long-term control.
3. Watering In the Granules
After application, the granules must be watered into the soil to activate the treatment and move the active ingredient down into the top layer of the soil where fire ant colonies live. This is typically done either by rainfall or with your irrigation system, according to label directions.
4. Gradual Elimination of Colonies
As fire ants tunnel through treated soil and forage across the yard, they contact the active ingredient and carry it back into the colony. The product works slowly, allowing ants to share it within the mound before they die, which is why it can take several weeks for all mounds to disappear – but the benefit is deep, long-lasting control.
5. Our 1-Year Fire Ant Guarantee
When your lawn qualifies for our Top Choice Fire Ant Treatment, we provide a written 1-year guarantee on imported fire ants in the treated turf area. If you see fire ant activity in your lawn during that year:
- Call D & D Pest Control Co. at (252) 523-8255
- We will schedule a follow-up visit
- We inspect and retreat active mounds or problem areas covered under the plan at no additional cost during the guarantee period
Why Broadcast Treatment Beats Spot-Treating Mounds
It’s tempting to just hit the mounds you see with contact insecticide, boiling water, or a dust. The problem is that:
- Many colonies build satellite mounds, so killing one mound doesn’t remove the whole colony
- Queens and brood are often located deeper in the soil, where surface sprays can’t reach
- Untreated colonies in the yard simply move and build new mounds after a quick knockdown treatment
Extension research shows that broadcast treatments using slow-acting fipronil granules offer area-wide control by treating every part of the lawn, not just the obvious mounds. One correctly timed application can provide season-long (and up to year-long) control of imported fire ants in turf.
Is Top Choice Fire Ant Treatment Safe for My Family & Pets?
Top Choice-style fire ant treatments are designed for use on residential and commercial turf. Safety depends on using the product exactly as the label directs and making sure it is applied by trained professionals.
- People & pets should remain off the lawn until the granules have been watered in and the grass is dry.
- We avoid application on hard surfaces that drain directly into storm drains, ponds, or streams, because fipronil is highly toxic to aquatic organisms.
- We follow label instructions for buffer zones near water and ornamental fish ponds.
- Granules are applied only to labeled turf and landscape sites, not to vegetable gardens, pastures, or hay fields.
If you have special concerns about children, pets, or sensitive areas on your property, we will walk your yard with you and explain exactly how and where we plan to treat.
When Is the Best Time to Treat for Fire Ants?
Top Choice fire ant treatment can be applied at nearly any time the ground is not frozen, but certain seasons provide the best results:
- Early spring: Often the ideal time in Eastern North Carolina – treat before mounds become large and before peak yard-use season.
- Late winter to early summer: A single early-season application can protect your lawn through most of the warm months.
- Any time heavy infestations appear: If your yard is already covered in mounds, we can still apply and start knocking colonies down, though mounds may take several weeks to disappear as the product works through the soil.
We’ll recommend the best timing based on your property, current infestation level, and how you use your yard.
Frequently Asked Questions About Our Top Choice Fire Ant Treatment
How quickly will my fire ant mounds disappear?
You may see fire ant activity begin to decline in the first few weeks, but because fipronil is designed to be slow-acting and reach the whole colony, it can take 4–6 weeks for all visible mounds to die out. The trade-off for this slower action is much longer residual control than typical contact-only treatments.
Will I be completely fire ant free for a full year?
No treatment can promise that no fire ant will ever step foot on your property, but the Top Choice program is designed so your lawn is protected from imported fire ant mounds for up to one year. If qualifying mounds appear in the treated turf during that time, our guarantee means we’ll come back and retreat the problem areas at no additional charge.
Does this treatment help with other insects?
Fipronil granules labeled for fire ant control also provide varying degrees of control for several other turf pests, such as fleas, ticks, and mole crickets, when applied at the fire ant rate on labeled sites. The primary focus of this service, however, is long-term imported fire ant control.
Do you still recommend baits or other methods?
In some situations, we may combine the Top Choice program with fire ant baits or other spot treatments around sensitive areas. Baits can provide faster knockdown on certain sites, while the fipronil broadcast gives long-range, long-term control. We’ll design a plan that makes the most sense for your yard.
Will the treatment hurt my garden or shrubs?
The product we use is labeled for turfgrass and landscape beds. We keep application within labeled sites, avoid edible gardens unless specifically allowed by the label, and follow buffer requirements for sensitive plants and water features. We’ll review any special landscaping concerns with you before we treat.
Why Hire D & D Pest Control Co. for Fire Ant Treatment?
When you choose D & D Pest Control Co. for fire ant control in Eastern North Carolina, you get:
- Professional-grade Top Choice fire ant treatment that most DIY homeowners cannot purchase or apply
- Calibrated equipment to ensure the right amount is applied to every square foot of your yard
- Local expertise with fire ants in Kinston, Greenville, Jacksonville, New Bern, La Grange, Snow Hill, Pink Hill, Ayden, Grifton, Winterville, Richlands, Trenton, and surrounding communities
- A 1-year fire ant guarantee for qualifying yards – if covered fire ants come back, so do we
- Friendly, licensed technicians who treat your yard as if it were their own
Ready for a Fire Ant Free Yard?
Stop dodging mounds and worrying about painful stings every time you step into the grass. Let us put a professional, long-lasting barrier between your family and imported fire ants.
Call D & D Pest Control Co. today at (252) 523-8255 or use our online contact form to request your Top Choice Fire Ant Treatment estimate.
One application. Up to one year of fire ant protection. Backed by local experts who stand behind every yard we treat.
